All About Pocket Knives

dundak wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 4:34 am It's Case's new stamp for carbon steel. Supposedly less vanadium than CV.

centennialknives wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 12:12 pm

dundak wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 4:34 am It's Case's new stamp for carbon steel. Supposedly less vanadium than CV.

Correct. I have some CV Case knives, and some of the newer knives made recently you can, if you look, find a few CS versions. Mostly case does SS.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 12:25 pm As stated above, Carbon Steel (CS) or Chrome Vanadium (CV). Stainless Steel would be SS.

dundak wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 4:34 am It's Case's new stamp for carbon steel. Supposedly less vanadium than CV.

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 8:57 pm Tom, here’s a post from about a year ago with more info about your question https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/kn ... 66&t=74672.

Hope it’s helpful.

Ken

TPK wrote: ↑Wed Apr 26, 2023 6:11 pm
Was looking for Info on the Tang Stamp, seems the "S" in "CASE" is now an indicator of the blade steel type. A lightning bolt "S" stands for SS & a normal "S" stands for CV which now marked with CS.
The problem is not about learning new things, it's about remembering them.

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Wed Apr 26, 2023 6:36 pm

TPK wrote: ↑Wed Apr 26, 2023 6:11 pm
Was looking for Info on the Tang Stamp, seems the "S" in "CASE" is now an indicator of the blade steel type. A lightning bolt "S" stands for SS & a normal "S" stands for CV which now marked with CS.
The problem is not about learning new things, it's about remembering them.

that was new
Don’t feel bad Tom. That use of the lightning S and normal S has only been that way for about 30+ years. But just think of all the people in the world who don’t know that! Or care! Someone learns it anew every day. Well, maybe every month or so anyway.

Ken

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 4:02 pm Don’t despair Tom. It’s really not that difficult. Knives made prior to 1980 had the normal (rounded) S stamp. The “lightning S” stamp first appeared in 1980 but during the decade of the ‘80s it was used on all pocket knives regardless of the type of steel. Stainless steel knives were marked with ‘SS” in some manner.

Then in 1990 Case started using the “lightning S” in the stamp to denote stainless steel. Knives having the normal rounded S are carbon steel (CV). Unfortunately most charts showing the Case date code stamp system only show the lightning S version. Which confuses many and it’s not uncommon for them to think because their knife doesn’t have a lightning S, it must be a fake or something. There are countless posts here on AAPK asking “the S on my stamp is different, why doesn’t the stamp on my knife match the chart?”

Collectors are our own worst enemy. People obsess over knowing every minute detail about a knife, so Case tries to provide a lot (date made, blade material, handle material and color, etc) in the stamps and box labels. Then people complain it’s too complicated!

Ken